Clinton mailing's gun gaffe

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5-5-2008 12:46 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/28417669-f1be-4a34-b983-869e87c50295/8D167E8C-65B4-4527-8A92-71E74A979AFA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_mailings_gun_gaffe.html" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_mailings_gun_gaffe.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.politico.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_mailings_gun_gaffe.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.politico.com/img/C290023B-1358-4F26-A085-46B77DBB4B79" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_mailings_gun_gaffe.html"><P><DIV>Sen. Hillary Clinton’s mailing attacking Sen. Barack Obama’s record on guns appears to include a striking visual gaffe: The image of the gun pictured on the face of the mailing is reversed, making it a nonexistent left-handed model of the Mauser 66 rifle.</DIV>
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To make matters worse, a prominent gun dealer said, it’s an expensive German gun with customized features that make it clearly European.</DIV>
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“The gun in the photo does not exist,” said Val Forgett III, president of <A href="http://www.navyarms.com" linkindex="99">Navy Arms</A> in Martinsburg, W.Va. Forgett's company was Mauser’s agent in the United States when the gun was released, and it sold Mauser guns here again in the 1990s. “The bolt is facing to the left side of the receiver, making it a left-handed bolt action rifle, indicating whoever constructed and approved the mailer did not recognize the image has been reversed.”</DIV>
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Forgett said the error would be obvious to sportsmen.</DIV>

“I find it laughable on its face,” he said. “It’s like a picture of Babe Ruth hitting right-handed.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8D167E8C-65B4-4527-8A92-71E74A979AFA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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